Books Quote by Jean Stafford

“I'm a novelist. Anything you say can be taken down and used against you in a work of fiction.”

— Anne R. Allen

“You never finish writing a novel, you eventually abandon it.”

— Tom Winton

“Write and keep writing, not because people will like it, but because someone may get a kick out of thrashing your book.”

— Magus Tor

“I would never re-write you. You are by far my most complete and greatest novel.”

— Virginia Woolf

“If you talked about writing books, you’d never do it.”

— Rick Mofina

“When a writer dies, he becomes his books.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“This is what I love about novels, both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss, to be with you”

— John Green

“I stopped writing the book that I wanted to write, and wrote the one the book wanted to write.”

— Jim Lewis

“I write because the book I want to read has not been written yet.”

— Richard HR Penn

“I'll write you an epilogue, I will, I will. Better than any shit that drunk could write. His brain is Swiss cheese. He doesn't…

— John Green

“If you don’t like a book, lay it aside. It was not written for you.”

— Anonymous

“If you read something, what you have written you ain't gonna like it... - It sounds horrible... so write don't read your own stuff.”

— Deyth Banger